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Pass proxyUrl when you need browser traffic to use your own SOCKS5 proxy.

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Use a Proxy

const session = await client.browser.session.create({
  type: "hosted",
  proxyUrl: "socks5://user:[email protected]:1080",
});

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.driver.dev/v1/browser/session",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.getenv('DRIVER_API_KEY')}",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={
        "type": "hosted",
        "proxyUrl": "socks5://user:[email protected]:1080",
    },
)
resp.raise_for_status()
session = resp.json()

curl -X POST https://api.driver.dev/v1/browser/session \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DRIVER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"type":"hosted","proxyUrl":"socks5://user:[email protected]:1080"}'

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Format

socks5://username:password@host:port
proxyUrl must point to a real SOCKS5 proxy reachable from Driver infrastructure. It cannot be used with nodeId.